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...means such as tanning and plastic surgery—is, Pollitt says, a waste of time. “You might as well be smoking and getting some pleasure out of it,” she says. For Pollitt, the movement towards physical perfection is connected to our current capitalist moment. “The pressure to be 24/7 hot is very intense and very stressful,” she says. “There is a premium for perfection and no one is perfect.” Even though feminism isn’t an explicit theme...
...past decade, zillionaires have entered the mega-yacht race, one-upping one another in size and cost. Yachts longer than 150ft. (45m) go for $20million to $50million. Venture capitalist Tom Perkins has beaten them all with the Maltese Falcon. The 289-footer (88m) cost more than $100million and is one of the world's largest, fastest sailing yachts. At up to $700,000 a week, it is also one of the most expensive charters--and you're too late. It's booked until...
What's the reason for your more than 20-point lead in voters polls? My advantage is largely a product of President Kirchner's political project, which has produced strong economic growth without the unemployment and institutional ruptures we saw as a result of the neoliberal capitalist reforms of the 1990s, which brought on the crisis. For most of the 20th century, such ruptures in Argentina and Latin America were usually a result of military coups; but after the fall of the Berlin Wall they've often resulted from following the Washington Consensus [U.S.-backed capitalist reform policies...
Many American and European holders of tens of billions of dollars in Argentine debt are still insisting on restructuring terms that leave them with less heavy losses. Our restructuring plan isn't something capricious. In fact, it's based on economic and, more important, capitalist rationality, because we've determined it's the only way we can sustain the economic growth that the IMF, which was the original devil in this whole situation, had always insisted on from the beginning. There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then...
...elected government official, no matter how inflamed is the rhetoric, is seriously considering the possibility of challenging the capitalist system,” Fernández said of Latin American leaders in his speech...